On October 17, 1979, eight milk trucks left the Soprole milk factory to drive through the city of Santiago according to a previously planned route, which ended at the National Museum of Fine Arts, where the trucks stood for hours forming a long line. The route symbolically connects a milk producing factory with a conservative 'art factory', the museum. This civil action sought to expose political violence, cultural censorship and human misery in a country threatened and under surveillance by Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. The Museum was under the control of the dictatorship so the milk trucks worked as a critical reference to military technology and Pinochet’s regime. Covering the facade of the Museum with a white cloth, CADA indicated that art was not inside the museum but outside, dispersed in the city, clandestine. Shown in this clip is video documentation of the performance, along with a text in Spanish: ‘El arte es la ciudad y el cuerpo de los ciudadanos desnutridos’ (Art is the city and the body of undernourished citizens).

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Inversión de escena
Inversión de escena (unedited footage I and II)
Inversión de escena (unedited footage III)
Inversión de escena (scrolling of performance synopsis : English version)
Acciones sobre arte y política CADA, 1979-1985 (still images)